The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-08-13

jim Clay, the only remaining son of Henry
il died suddenly on Wednesday of heart
Clayy E, at his farm, near Lexington, Ken
diseaA aged CT years,
tucky,v Thousand Indians are expected in
Five, W. T., shortly to assist in picking
Tacoma, rop. They come from points as far
OIL us Alas pe Hospital Bureau is informed
The MARI PIX and yellow fever are raging in
that small.ps During July there were lO4
Havana, Cub elbow fever and 112 from small
pox. jams, who was confined in the
Charles WIN knty, West Virginia, for the
| jail OF Logan COD Aldridge, was taken from
murder of James Monday night and hanged
jail by citizens on
TO tree. is s feet inches in
! Col. Cooper, WI bly, the tallest in the
height, and is proba saloon now in Buffalo,
country, is keeping pf the publicity of the
| N. Y, having tired
show business. komneted last weeL AZ
Twenty young men Vest Point cadetship,
| Westheld, Mass, Tor pm compelled to
and the examining SURGE ecount of tobacco
| reject ten of them on al Arette smoking
heart" brought on by ciga\ Ovoan MICHIGAN
| despatch from Chebc in dense smoke
says that village is enveloped 70 much valuable
| from fires which are destroylr drouth in that
timber in that vicinity. Then Id all kinds of
section has been protracted, AN
! vegetation has been burned up. To,;sv;IIa
As construction train on the Railroad
Evansville and St. Louis Air LinS bdiana, on
was approaching Duf7s station, Ii and the |
Tuesday, the engine struck COW me of the |
train was thrown from the track. u Five |
construction crew were badly injured
of them cannot recover. las inst |
| A postmaster in a Florida town, it nearly
come to light, has hung on to his office he /
| three years longer than it was intended was
should, by Withholding from the man who non,
appointed to succeed him the commissf he'd
letters of inquiry, etc., that were forward
from Washington through his hands.
About forty Icelanders, including women
and children, arrived in this country ten days
ago and located, as colony at Sayreville,
/ Middlesex county, New Jersey. A few days
4 ago two of them died of disease resembling
cholera, and FIVE more have since been taken i'll
4 down with the disease Several doctors have any
been requested to visit the colony. eng
While clipping coupons in Boston fnan- 9th
cial institution recently, Hon. Alpheus Hardy, wol
of that city, dropped his scissors in such a a
way that the sharp point pierced one Of his :
legs. Blood poisoning, resultingin his death, Il
ensued. Mr.. Hardy was the father of Prof. Il
A. D. Hardy of Dartmouth College, author VT
of the novel, ''But Yet Woman" "
Francis La Flesche full blooded Omaha
Indian, employed in the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, was ON Wednesday promoted from
$1,000 clerkship to clerkship of the $1,000 90
class. La Flesche educated at the Mis- cea
sion School of an Indian agency in Nebraska. VI
On several occasions he has acted as inter- lo'
prefer between his people and Government UNI
officers. sal
Reports from the Northwest say the storm D
on Tuesday night was pretty general; and in at
the lumber districts, where forest fires were rea
raging, the rain checked the progress of the bri
flames kilograms from the interior of Wis
consin indicate that the wind storm which
! cor ram
that much damage has resulted in conse roa
quence. MI
The walls of the ruins of Bishop 4 Spears ,n
peanut warehouse, in st. Louis, fell on We'd on,
nesday morning and carried with them apor ""'
ton of j. Alkires & Co.'s wholesale grocery A
house. In the ruins were buried number n
of firemen. Barney McKernan, Frank Nc 81
Donald and Christian Hoell were dead when =. -
rescued; James O'Brien is thought to be W.. wa
fatally hurt, and three others severely in en-,
jured. mi
! A Prohibition meeting was held at Noun be,
tain Park, Wilkesbarre, Pa, Tuesday. 1t far
required forty cars to carry the crowd to the an,
grounds. Speeches were made by M. j. the
| Fleming, editor of the New York Voice; wit
Mrs. Clara A. Hoffman, of St. Louis, and ex- thi
Governor st. John. The latter said the Re- its
publican party and the Church of Christ were lite
charged with the responsibility of the liquor on
traffic. ha!
A despatch from Pittsburg says a syndicate
of New York and Pittsburg capitalists have nc
Just closed a transaction, by which they be- the
come the of nearly one hundred idr
thousand acres of pine forests along the north ye;
ern line of South Carolina and the southern int
boundary of Georgia. The price paid was a of
million dollars in cash. 1t is said the pur-
chasers will hold the lands until an advance
in the price of lumber greatly increases their -
value n